Progress: 50%
If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked
I too enjoy when the proper meanings of words get used and things work as advertised. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that this is such a controversial topic here. Imagine wanting moderation tools that actually work, the nerve!
So, 20 years ago before Facebook? I know for a fact that blocking has always worked properly on Facebook, I had a very toxic ‘friendship’ there another lifetime ago where we were blocking and unblocking each other every 5 minutes. But it’s funny how everyone here keeps upvoting the incorrect information and ignoring the correct information about this. Not funny haha but funny peculiar. If Facebook only filtered out people instead of blocking them properly, it would be a disaster as far as stalking goes. And I think that everyone knows it because normally people on this platform seem quite rational. Except for when there’s any criticism of the Fediverse, that is.
When you block someone, the first thing that Facebook does is restrict the blocked user’s access to your profile. The user can’t view your profile even if they have a direct link to your account page. They’ll get an error message if they try to do that.
Information from https://www.howtogeek.com/896008/what-happens-when-you-block-someone-on-facebook/
You can keep making these bullshit statements about how it works on other sites but thankfully I have this thing called ‘internet’ to look up the facts myself.
If you’d like to cut off contact from someone for any reason, you can block them by going to their profile or visiting your user settings.
Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your post or comments in communities, unless you are a moderator in specific situations.
From https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413520308372-How-does-blocking-work. But I see that you downvoted that user for their correct information anyway without bothering to confirm for yourself. I find it pretty sad how people around here seem to be falling over themselves to defend the Fediverse at all costs without even discussing something or wanting it to be better.
I have literally always known blocking to be blocking, not filtering. Blocking blocks people on your phone, on chat apps, on Facebook and on Reddit. Not sure why this is a special case that needs to be forgiven or ignored.
Good one 🤣🤣😂🤣
Can you give examples of platforms where it works like this? I know that blocking someone on Facebook blocks them from being able to see you. Pretty Twitter is or was the same before Musk. And I just looked it up, blocking a user on Reddit does in fact block them from seeing you. I’m pretty sure it’s always worked this way on smaller platforms I’ve used too.
So I’m curious to know, which platforms have you always used that have apparently always worked this way?
Ah there it is. The “it’S oNlY imAGiNAry iNteRneT pOInts” smart ass comment. I knew it was coming, glad it’s out the way.
Don’t forget Germany. Seems like the only lesson their politicians learnt from WW2 was “don’t ever criticise Israel.”
These Republicans are literally evil and it baffles me and fills me with despair that people just don’t see it. They want to fuck and marry children, and send them to work in the mines, on school nights. They dismantle environmental protections and human rights with glee. They want to privatise everything and make everyone beholden to billionaires that make more in an hour than others will in a lifetime. They force brain dead mothers to incubate babies and healthy mothers to incubate brain dead babies.
They are undeniably evil fucking scum. But they’ve got everyone convinced that the drag queen reading children’s books in a public library is the thing destroying society. And to me, the worst part of all is that none of these things are a secret. They don’t campaign for child marriage in secret, they don’t force women to go through absolute horror behind closed doors. This is all openly done and known. So what does that say about the many many people that act like they’re their saviours?
Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.
If you want to quickly and easily get past karma limits, just spend a day in AskReddit, answering posts in the ‘rising’ sort. Eventually one of those posts will take off and just because you answered early enough, you’ll get hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. It’s usually more about timing than quality there.
So does that mean it gets one more season before Netflix cancels it?
This doctor outrage was easily one of the top dumbest fucking things to ever come out of the USA. And of course it was all the right wing conservative people lmao. It’s just one thing after the other with these people. If they’re not angry that kids are learning Arabic numerals in school, they’re busy choosing 1/4 pounder burgers over 1/3 pounder burgers. But the doctor thing is definitely one for the hall of fame.
I honestly don’t think Arch is that bad or complicated. It’s just that you have to go into it knowing that you’re in for some reading, tinkering and following step by step instructions along the way. I’d start with something like Mint or Ubuntu for a first look for sure. But once you’re ready to learn a bit more about how the Linux system works and is put together, Arch would straight up be my first recommendation. Even if it’s something you play with on the side in a virtual machine, for me at least, starting on Arch was when my Linux experience went from clicking at things and copy pasting commands into the terminal to still copying and pasting commands lol, but actually learning why and how and what too.
2 or 17. Sometimes (rarely) 20.
I don’t. I tried it and I don’t really think it’s my thing. Haven’t explored it top to bottom though, so I’m definitely open to suggestions of channels to check out.
Usually if I’m not impressed in an RPG, I’m watching something fantasy, sci-fi or comic book lol. Also trying to listen to more music again.
Me too sigh. Or binge watching or gaming. Cats are easily distracted.
These days I alternate between binge watching cat and gaming cat. Very rarely reading cat but I want to start balancing it more with the binge watching and gaming.
Knitting cat could represent any art or craft or creative thing. Haven’t been knitting cat in a while. I’d actually like to learn knitting, and sewing though, literally.
Used to be drinking cat regularly but I’ve gone off it in the last few years. A bottle of red on the weekend is starting to sound good again though.
I’m usually laundry cat on Mondays (I hate Mondays…)
And all of that is of course when I’m not sleepy cat. Which includes doomscrolling for me.
See that’s my problem here. I just came from a heavily moderated instance because I thought that I could moderate my own experience instead. But it turns out that I have to rely on admins and moderators anyway.
Yeah I don’t buy this. To me, it makes perfect logical sense that if I block someone, they’re actually blocked and not just hidden from my view. Maybe this wasn’t a problem for forum sites used by a couple of hundred people at most but it’s not 1999 anymore and there’s a lot of psychos out there. It’s nice to know that you can actually protect yourself to some extent on an online platform these days.